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Hydrogen & fuel cells

Closing the circle

John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

The project of a "green wizardry" based on 70s-era appropriate tech requires a clear understanding of matter as well as energy. With the help of dog slobber, nuclear waste, and several other unmentionable substances, the Archdruid explains.

archived July 22, 2010
	

Power, and where it comes from - Mar 3

Staff, Energy Bulletin

-Environmentalists question coal's place in Obama policy
-The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
-Parsing fact from fiction with the Bloom Energy box

archived March 3, 2010
	

The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?

Big Gav, The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand

Fuel cell company Bloom Energy made quite a stir over the weekend, with a spot on the CBS "Sixty Minutes" TV program in the United States (The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? - see the link for the video and transcript).

archived February 23, 2010
	

Job Losses Push Need for Energy Bill

Craig A. Severance CPA, Energy Economy Online

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)

archived February 10, 2010
	

Throwing our energy at impossible dreams...

P. F. Henshaw, The People's Voice

"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"

archived December 16, 2009
	

Peak Oil: The Eventual End of the Oil Age

Jonah Ralston, Washington University in St. Louis

We cannot be lulled into a false sense of security: though oil prices have declined from their historic highs, there is little doubt that peak oil is real. A 2008 research project completed at Washington University in St. Louis found strong evidence in support of the theory. Please feel free to circulate this academic document as a primer on peak oil.

archived November 30, 2009
	

Resources and anthropocentrism

Guy R. McPherson, Nature Bats Last

Evolution demands short-term thinking focused on individual survival. Most attempts to overcome our evolutionarily hardwired absorption with self are selected against. The Overman is dead, killed by a high-fat diet and unwillingness to exercise. Reflexively, we follow him into the grave.

archived October 12, 2009
	

ODAC Newsletter - Sept 18

Staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre

This week saw further oil discoveries in the Santos Basin and off the coast of Ghana, extending a run of sizeable finds in recent weeks. Following much breathless reporting of such discoveries, it was good to them put into context by solid analysis from Morgan Stanley and Bank Macquarie...

archived September 18, 2009
	

Then & now

Roger Blanchard, ASPO-USA

Recently a friend gave me a copy of a January 22, 1973 issue of Newsweek. The cover title was “The Energy Crisis”. It’s interesting to look back and see how things have changed; or, to be more accurate, not changed.

archived July 13, 2009
	

Transport - May 11

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Bioelectricity better than biofuels for transport
U.S. Drops Research Into Fuel Cells for Cars
Flush with Camaro orders, GM workers on OT

archived May 11, 2009
	

Energy limits to growth: integrating energy sources - part III

Richard Heinberg, Richard Heinberg/Post Carbon Institute

This content is no longer available. It was a pre-publication draft of a section of "Energy Limits to Growth," a report that will be published in expanded form by Post Carbon Institute and International Forum on globalization in May.

archived March 20, 2009
	

Thinking about energy - Dec 1

Staff, Energy Bulletin

NYT: A world of a different color (horsepower)
Headlights burn more fuel?
The end of the road for hydrogen?

archived December 1, 2008
	

Dysfunction - August 12

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Mad cows (and livid lambs)
China and India: heartlands of global protest
Outside U.S., credit cards tighten grip
Local scientist splits water, saves world, gets on TV

archived August 12, 2008
	

Transport - August 4

staff, Energy Bulletin

The problem with walk score, the possibilities of carbon goggles
Automakers race time as their cash runs low
Addiction: A million little miles per gallon
Consumer auto expert Reed: ‘panic in boardrooms’ of GM, Ford as it becomes clear electric cars ‘really coming’

archived August 4, 2008
	

Australia report on future of transport fuels - July 11

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Peak oil: petrol to reach $8 a litre
Fuel for thought - CSIRO's report on the future of transport fuels
ASPO-Australia's response to CSIRO report
Petrol report a wake-up call: environmentalists

archived July 11, 2008